Header for cigar-bunch-rolling machines.



m. 639,|90. Patented Dec. |2,"|a99n c. AFBAKER. A HEADER FOR CIGAR BUNCH ROLLING MACHINES.

(Application filed Oct. 26, 1896. Renewed Apr. 14, 1899.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR ar/es WITNESSES:

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STATES llnirrn o PATENT Orrrca,

CHARLES A. BAKER, OF BINGHAMTON, NEIV YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,190, dated December 12, 189 9.

Application filed October 26, 1896. Renewed April 14, 1899. Serial No. 713,064. No model-l To all whom it may concern:

Binghamton, in the county of Broome, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Headers for Cigar- Bunch-Rollin g Machines, of which the followin g, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to cigar-bunch-rollin g machines, and particularly to headers therefor. 7

My object is to provide a machine of that class with an oscillatory header adapted to be used either by its own gravity alone or in conjunction with a spring to increase the force exerted both by yielding to shape the head of a bunch While it is being rotated by a bunch-rotating mechanism to roll it into the wrapper and also to finish the head and its tip.

In the accompanying drawings my header is shown as applied to a machine of the class shown in the patent, No. 535,048, granted March 5,1895, to Bunn,Baker, and Keyes; but this is for illustration only, as it can be applied to any machine employing a bunch-rotating mechanism in conjunction with a header.

Figure 1 shows a top plan of this header and sufficient of the adjacent parts to illustrate the location, mounting, and operation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 8 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section thereof as when a bunch is inserted. Fig. 5 is a like view thereof in its normal position with the bunch removed. Fig. 6 is a transverse section showing a spring connected to the header to increase the force exerted upon the head of the bunch.

The bed of the machine 2, the wrapperstretcher 3, the wrappernicker 4c and its mounting, the paste-pipe 5, the endless apron 6, rear roller 7, and presser-roller 8 are all here shown substantially the same as in said patent and do not in themselves constitute a part of this invention.

The header 9 consists of a suitable block of metal provided with a suitable recess 10 to receive the head of abunch, and it is suitably mounted upon the table, wrapper-stretcher,

or other part of the machine in suitable alinement with a bunch-rotating mechanism by means of a suitable hinge 11, so that it can freely turn, swing, or oscillate. It is transversely beveled or cut away, as at 12, to permit it to assume its normal position, as shown in. Fig. 5, and to exert the full force of its gravityupon the bunch,theinserti0n of which turns, swings, or oscillates it into substantially the position shown in Fig. 4. To increase this force, a suitable spring 13 is connected to the header and here shown as exerting its force downwardly. It will thus be seen that when the head of a bunch is inserted into theheader it will be tilted, turned, swung, 0r oscillated upward against the downward force of the weight or the weight and spring combined, so that thereby the rotating head will be smoothed and trued up both. before and after the wrapper is Wound onto it, so that the tip will be smoothed, wound, pasted, nicked by the nicker, and completely finished in the header, all without requiring any rubbing or smoothing down by the fingers of the operator after the removal of the wrapped cigar from the machine.

The headeris provided with a slot 14:,through which the wrapper is drawn to be wrapped onto the head. The nicker is also cutaway, as at 15, to permit it to straddle the hinge.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cigar-bunch rolling machine, a bunch-rotating mechanism, in combination with apivoted header recessed interiorly and mounted so as to be oscillated or turned.

2. In a cigar-bunch-rolling machine, a

bunch-rotating mechanism, in combination with an interiorly-recessed header to receive the head of abunch, and mounted byahingejoint in alinement with the rotating mechanism, and normally out of its operative position.

3. In a cigar-bunch-rolling machine, an interiorly-recessed pivoted header normally out of operative position and adapted to be shifted by the insertion of the head of a bunch thereinto.

4. In a cigar-bunch-rolling machine, an interiorly-reo'essed header hinged normally out of operative position and adapted to be shifted into position, and to bear upon said head,

by the insertion of the head of a bunch into IO said recess, and means to rotate said bunch.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of October, 1896.

CHARLES A. BAKER.

In presence of I MARY A. FRANKLIN,

HOWARD P. DENIsoN. 

